Tag: PIL

Source: newindianexpress.com BENGALURU: Taking note of the prevailing drought situation in 65 taluks in the state, the Karnataka High Court on Monday directed the State government to open at least one cattle camp in each taluk suffering from drought. It said that the camps could be set up either by the state itself or with

Source: morungexpress.com The Supreme Court of India, on July 2, has reportedly dismissed the Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by lawyer Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay challenging certain sections of the “Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation, 1873 which gives unbridled power to a State to prescribe ILP.” Upadhyay contended that Nagaland has only eight per cent Hindu population

Source: news18.com New Delhi: A PIL has been filed in the Delhi High Court, seeking direction to the Delhi government to enforce the provisions of the Mental Health Care Act, 2017 with immediate effect. The plea is listed for hearing on Monday before a bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari

Source: indiatoday.in The Delhi High Court on Wednesday posted for July 8 a plea seeking direction to the Lok Sabha Speaker to appoint a Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, saying there was no urgency in the matter. A vacation bench was hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by advocates Manmohan Singh and

Source:- eastmojo.com Aizawl: The Aizawl bench of the Gauhati High Court has stayed the new traffic rule in Aizawl following an appeal by the Mizoram Bar Association, an umbrella organisation of all advocates in the state, sources said on Thursday. The new rules restricting movement of vehicles to ease traffic snarls in Aizawl was supposed to

Source – indiatoday.in Is it not time to discontinue long vacations for courts, especially the Supreme Court (SC), when the Indian judiciary is grappling with backlog to the tune of a whopping 3.3 crore cases across the country? A first-of-its-kind public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed before the SC demanding that court vacations, a British era practice,

Source:- economictimes.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court today refused to entertain a plea seeking either a total ban on slaughter of cattle or framing of a uniform policy to protect and preserve them from slaughtering and smuggling. A bench comprising Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justice N V Ramana said it cannot direct states

Source:- timesofindia.indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: Filling a PIL against President Pranab Mukherjee proved costly to petitioners with the Supreme Court on Monday barred them from filling any PIL in future in all courts saying that no litigant could be permitted to browbeat or malign the system and the high constitution functionaries. A bench of Justices Dipak

Source:- thehindu.com A 32-year-old waiter, who tried to convince the Madras High Court to direct the Union government to issue a blanket ban on the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), faced the wrath of the court, which dismissed his Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition, terming it as a “misadventure” for publicity, exploiting the current

Source – indiatimes.com “Why censor anything at all…it’s so rigid today,” said a friend who felt that all attempts to ‘curb’ were restrictive and wrong. Films have always been closely associated with Freedom. “But, Freedom comes with riders. Your freedom should not hurt another’s,” I said, “In our quest for freedom, we must ensure not to